Sandspit

I painted this little oil on location a while ago, in Sandspit. It's just east of Warkworth, New Zealand - my original hometown before I moved to the Bay of Islands. My son, daughter-in-law and three grandkids are moving to New Zealand in a few months. I'm really looking forward to taking the kids to Sandspit to swim, which is where I swam as a kid.  It's safe and shallow.

"Pathless Woods"

Pathless Woods

18" x 36" oil on linen
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There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,

There is a rapture on the lonely shore,

There is society, where non intrudes,

By the deep sea, and music in its roar.

I love not man the less, but Nature more,

From these our interviews, in which I steal

From all I may be, or have been before,

To mingle with the Universe, and feel

What I can never express, yet cannot all conceal.

Lord Byron